{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-2009/schedule-4/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/3",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Amend section 70 as follows.\n(2) For subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) Appointments to the offices listed in column 1 of Schedule 3 shall be made by the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice; and persons holding such offices are in this Act referred to as “statutory officers”.\n(1A) The Lord Chief Justice must be consulted before a determination (or a revision of a determination) is made under Part 3 of Schedule 3 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 in relation to statutory officers.\n(1B) The terms and conditions of service for statutory officers are to be determined by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Treasury.”\n(3) In subsection (3)—\n(a) for “Lord Chancellor” substitute “ Commission ”;\n(b) for “he” (in both places where it appears) substitute “ it ”.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(4) omitted (12.4.2010) by virtue of Department of Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 3), s. 3(2), Sch. para. 22; S.R. 2010/147, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15(5) omitted (12.4.2010) by virtue of Department of Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 3), s. 3(2), Sch. para. 22; S.R. 2010/147, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15 in force at 12.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/812, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/3/schedule/4/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:25.040807+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}